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3) Retribution and violence is far too hardwired into our minds.

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psyka said:

In my personal opinion, it is glaringly obvious that anarchy cannot exist. Or rather, cannot exist for more than a brief moment after turning into communism.

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The absense of government aka social regulation.

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daimyo said:

What's your definition of anarchy?

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Different kinds of Anarchism

There are several different kinds of anarchism, and their beliefs are quite different. In this text I will discuss some of the best known kinds of Anarchism. You will, I am quite sure, find that not all of them share the same views, and in some cases some of the ideas might not even fulfill the traditional definition of Anarchism...

Before I go any further, I would like to briefly introduce the topic, which is quite confusing. There are two terms worth to notice, right anarchism and left anarchism, these are the terms describing different kinds of anarchism, right anarchism mostly based on competition, in opposition to cooperation which is the belief of left anarchists.

Agorism: An anarchist ideology which is supporting a peaceful black market in addition to the normal free market.

Communitarian anarchism: The ideas, founded by Bakunin, relate much to Proudhon's beliefs but are also moving towards collective ideas. Bakunin was seeking a society which was based on cooperation and the fact that the workers owned their workplaces. In this society there would be no body to govern above each cooperation, and everybody in each cooperation would have the same amount of power. This means that although all people had an equal amount of power, the powers of each person was limited.

Anarcho-capitalism: The anarcho-capitalist ideas originate from Gustavo de Molinari, a Belgian economist. The last year of his life, Molinari wrote several essays which all gave the basis for anarcho-capitalism. These ideas are anarchist only in the limited view that they reject government and that they support a free market (in its meaning of a market free of state interference). They support property rights, police and even military force, which is to be used for defense purposes only. Because of this many anarchists do not even accept anarcho-capitalism as a anarchist school. Also known as market anarchism.

Anarcho-communism: "All things for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men worked to produce them in the measure of their strength, and since it is not possible to evaluate everyone's part in production of the world's wealth ... All is for all!" These words were said by Peter Kropotkin, a Russian anarchist who is counted as the founder of the anarcho-communist ideas, they summarize much of the beliefs of the anarcho-communists. The anarcho-communist ideas belong to a group of left-oriented anarchists, meaning that they support cooperation instead of competition.

Anarcho-pacifism: Anarchists and pacifists started to educate each other after the two world-wars, and soon the ideas today known as anarcho-pacifism, nonviolent anarchism or pacifist anarchism were developed. However, it was not before in the 1950's or 60's that the though-minded anarchists and the tender-minded pacifists had their common ideas and beliefs finished: A society with no rulers or classes, where religion (or Christianity) sets the only limits and in which a global government, whose only purpose is to protect the people, rules. These ideas support a limited government, making them much like the minarchist ideals.

Anarcho-syndicalism: Anarcho-syndicalists are in the opinion that the state has two tasks:

* As the fighting organization of the workers against the employers to enforce the demands of the workers for the safeguarding and raising of their standard of living;
* As the school for the intellectual training of the workers to make them acquainted with the technical management of production and economic life in general so that when a revolutionary situation arises they will be capable of taking the socio-economic organism into their own hands and remarking it according to socialist principles.

The anarcho-syndicalists are in opposition of elections, which they argue are just to make it seem that the rulers are working to the best of our interest. No political party, even a socialist one, is fitted to perform any of these two tasks. Further, anarcho-syndicalists share the general anarchist opinions.

Christian Anarchism: Christian anarchism is very similar to Anarcho-communism, or communistic anarchism as it also is called. The difference is that Christian anarchism derives some ideas and doctrines from the Christian Gospel and not philosophers. Leo Tolstoy is granted the founder of the ideas, which he arrived to through his Christian faith.

Eco-anarchism: This idea support small villages, each independent from the others. Some of the supporters of these ideas consider the village the unit of human life in opposition to considering the family such. Eco-anarchists argues that the only purpose of any political system or body should assure the creation of these small villages.

Individualism (Individualist-anarchism): This idea was founded by Stirner, an anarchist who lived in the 19th-century. Stirner, in his ideas, expressed that there is no god, only the individual on his own. The individual works to make everything his property. In individualist-anarchism Stirner expressed a wanting for the abolishment of state, government and laws. He further wanted a society in which everybody would fight for their own good in a battle against everybody else. Alliances would exist, but none would get a chance to develop into a superior group or a state.

Mutualism: Mutualism dates back to P.J. Proudhon, a French anarchist from the time of the French revolution. Mutualists belong to a non-collectivist segment of anarchists. They dream of a society in which the economy is organized around a free market, and production is done by self-employed workers and farmers. Mutualists also belongs to a group of left-oriented anarchists and therefore support cooperation as opposed to competition.

National-Anarchism: The ideas were founded by Troy Southgate, an opponent of the state from South London. Southgate is still alive, and active as a political writer "National-Anarchism essentially transcends the Left-Right spectrum, concluding that both epithets are simply convenient terms for the political establishment. We do not emanate from the Left, as you say, but then neither do we come from the Right. . . . . . . National-Anarchism is also very different to the vast majority of ideological tendencies in that we completely reject the Protestant work-ethic which runs through Western society. Bob Black explains this perfectly: "Curiously - or maybe not - all the old ideologies are conservative because they believe in work. Some of them, like Marxism and most brands of anarchism, believe in work all the more fiercely because they believe in so little else ... Marxists think we should be bossed by bureaucrats. Libertarians think we should be bossed by businessmen. Feminists don't care which form bossing takes so long as the bosses are women. Clearly these ideology-mongers have serious differences over how to divvy up the spoils of power. Just as clearly, none of them have any objection to power as such and all of them want to keep us working." (From The Abolition of Work and Other Essays, Loompanics, 1985, pp. 1-2). Another feature which distinguishes us from the mainstream ?anarchist? movement, is our profound belief in racial separatism. Here in England, National-Anarchists have consistently been labeled ?fascist? by a minority of self-seeking Trotskyists and anarcho-dogmatists." As understood from the above quote, national-anarchists attack other forms of anarchism or revolutionaries as well as the current capitalist system. At the same time, National-Anarchists also support an alliance formation between different revolutionary groups, as they argue this will lead the revolution to go strong, and that after the disappearance of the government, agreement can be made between the different groups. Again, I will quote Southgate: "I think the main thing to stress, however, is that although we are racial scenarists we have no objections to other people founding different communities as long as they allow us to live in peace. And we don't, obviously, have any time whatsoever for racial or white supremacy".

Although I intended to write every section in this article myself, Southgate expressed these ideas so well that I did not see any purpose in rewriting them. The above quote is from a mail he sent me regarding this article.

Another main point of the National-Anarchists is that there are two forms of freedom, national and individual. These are each others pre-conditions: No individual can be free if he belongs to a group of non-free people.

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psyka said:

The absense of government aka social regulation.

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kotik,

Go live in a cave TOTALLY independant, and see how you appreciate modern living.

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